A movie hall that lets you eat what’s on screen!

Showing next: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Edible Cinema has partnered with Bombay Sapphire for the drinks on the menu.

What if you could “have what she’s having” on screen? Now, a London-based concept theatre is taking the movie experience to a delicious new level by serving meals and drinks paired to what’s happening in the film.

Each screening by the Edible Cinema is accompanied by an elaborate menu, which mirrors the mood, theme and the goings-on. The show begins with a tray of small numbered boxes placed on your seat, with a canapé-sized treat or a mini-cocktail as an appetiser. Then, following a short introduction, the film starts. As the movie plays, a light box on the side of the screen displays what package number is to be opened and savoured.

For instance, during the screening of Pan’s Labyrinth, the scene where the characters run through a pine forest was paired with some pine-smoked popcorn. It wasn’t just about flavour and aroma here—the crunch was meant to match the sound of the characters’ footsteps on the needle-covered forest floor. And when Meg Ryan had her famous restaurant moment in When Harry Met Sally, viewers were cued to try the Bombay Orgasm, a cocktail of Bombay Sapphire, creme de cacao blanc, almond syrup, still water and lime. Other movies screened (and tasted) in the past include Romeo and Juliet, Some Like It Hot, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and An American Werewolf in London.

You are cued to eat from a box during a specific scene.

The next show is especially for the chocoholic—Tim Burton’s delicious blockbuster Charlie and the Chocolate’s Factory screens on 30 September at The Science Museum. Expect to bite into gum that tastes like a three-course dinner and an Augustus-flavoured chocolate-covered Goop, aside from other treats. What also makes it worth the hop is the fact that it’ll be the first Edible Cinema experience at the museum’s huge IMAX theatre, on a 408sqm screen. Tickets cost £37 (Rs3,800) per person and can be booked here.

You can also request a bespoke private screening at Electric Cinema in Notting Hill or Aubin Cinema in Shoreditch, whenever you are in London. Julie & Julia wouldn’t be a bad choice.